Cobblers and crisps and crumbles, oh my!

Cobblers, crisps and crumbles are very similar recipes, and they are plain old-fashioned desserts.

A cobbler is a baked deep-dish fruit dessert topped with a biscuit crust and sprinkled with sugar. A pandowdy is made with sliced apples seasoned with butter, brown sugar and spices, and then topped with a biscuit batter and baked.

The British have a similar dish called a crumble, which is raw fruit topped with a crumbly pastry mixture and baked. A crisp, such as apple crisp, is probably the most familiar fruit dessert of this kind and can have an oatmeal crumbly mixture on top.

However you make your plain old-fashioned fruit dessert, be sure to have ice cream or whipped cream on top of each serving.

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Blueberry peach cobbler

Fruit mixture:

¼ cup sugar

¼ cup brown sugar

1 tablespoon cornstarch

¾ cup water

2 tablespoons bourbon

1 tablespoon lemon juice

3 cups peeled and sliced fresh peaches

1 cup fresh blueberries

Topping:

½ cup sugar + 2 tablespoons sugar, divided

1 cup flour

1½ teaspoons baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

½ cup milk

¼ cup butter, melted

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

Garnish: whipped cream or ice cream

Preheat oven to 375.

Grease a 2-quart glass baking dish or casserole dish.

In a saucepan, combine the sugar, brown sugar, cornstarch and water.

Cook over medium heat until thickened.

Remove from heat and add the bourbon, lemon juice, peaches and blueberries.

Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Set aside.

For the topping, mix together the ½ cup sugar, flour, baking powder and the salt.